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811.
by breck 3y ago
Are you sure there's no artificial government intervention?
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by breck 3y ago
> more than a lot of us software developers. A big question I've tried to answer in my life is whether the high pay in the software world has an intelligent economic explanation, or maybe a more sinister explanation involving false
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Fun with AI Embeddings in Go(cybernetist.com)
2 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
814.
by breck 3y ago
This is why I was hoping the startup MightyApp would succeed. Then it would be practical to build web apps that operated on GB/TB of data in a single tab. Most of the time people would use their normal browser, but for big data jobs yo
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Regranting(manifund.com)
1 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
816.
by breck 3y ago
If you resize your browser window to be 1 column (or use mobile), then you can go in 1 direction.
817.
by breck 3y ago
I think it's all of the above. :)
818.
by breck 3y ago
Thanks! > I find it very strange that it flows by column instead of by row Years ago I was trying to get it to flow by row, but couldn't figure out the CSS columns stuff, and then realized I like the column flow, because it surfaced
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by breck 3y ago
> I take it to mean that his viewpoint is pre-decided and unchangeable. Yes, this is what I meant. "Locked-in" to a branch, and going to go down that tree as fast as possible until I get to the goal or exhaust every route if it
820.
by breck 3y ago
I don't track page views since I moved to GitHub Pages (and I took off google analytics). Probably a good thing, as removes incentive to think less but provoke more.
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by breck 3y ago
> I use a bunch of sleep trackers and have spent 5 years to correlate poor sleep to bad listening/more misunderstandings Interesting. Have you posted anything online about your findings? I think we are at an interesting time where n
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by breck 3y ago
> hidden variable driving both In the future maybe we'll have at home tomography or new sensors for cheaply measuring more biomarkers longitudinally and be able to pick up what the hidden variable(s) are.
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The Future of Text(futuretextpublishing.com)
2 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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Blog posts, sorted by sleep(breckyunits.com)
246 points by breck 3y ago|68 comments
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Pascal's Scams (ii) (2012)(unenumerated.blogspot.com)
1 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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Pascal's Scams (2012)(unenumerated.blogspot.com)
2 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
827.
The Origin of Chemical Elements (1948)(journals.aps.org)
3 points by breck 3y ago|1 comments
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by breck 3y ago
I'm not surprised. Nowadays I keep 2 LLM tabs open: ChatGPT 4 and Claude 3 Opus. Claude 3 Opus is noticeably smarter than ChatGPT 4. Like, it's not a tossup, it's a clear winner. I expect the lead to change again soon, but
829.
by breck 3y ago
> Many studies and reviews have found Wikipedia to be more accurate overall than Encyclopedia Britannica I'm not doubting this, but do you have citations?
830.
by breck 3y ago
https://archive.vn/mfAdv
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The Prophet of Shroom(forbes.com)
2 points by breck 3y ago|1 comments
832.
by breck 3y ago
The active steps to disguise the truth are hard to understand. Maybe some sort of brain damage? Or maybe a pathological disorder that I don't understand. However, if I try to assume a good intent, here's what I come up with: CW kn
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Words are Worse than Weights(breckyunits.com)
3 points by breck 3y ago|3 comments
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by breck 3y ago
> There was a time when the US government was a major contributor to this R&D but that was half a century ago. You are right. NSF backs this ( https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23320 ). Businesses now fund ~80% of R&a
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by breck 3y ago
It's interesting to see the founders in that thread mentioning their cracks at it. All seem to be dead now except for HumanAPI (which looks like was acquired by Lexis Nexis).
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Brain Pilots(breckyunits.com)
1 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
837.
by breck 3y ago
Can you explain more what you mean by this, with some numbers? This is not my understanding, but maybe we are thinking of different things. For example, NIH in 2023 spent over $30B of public funds on research^0, and has been spending in the
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EmotiBit: Wearable biometric sensing for any project(emotibit.com)
1 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
839.
by breck 3y ago
> capable of resolving and forming new connections > There is no survival of whether or not LLMs are accurate I agree that today's LLMs are still missing important components like these needed for breakout intelligence, but I wou
840.
by breck 3y ago
> when you love someone you build up these circuits that care about the other person and you cannot break them down, it seems. Ha! My experience as well. Even after many years when you see that person again those circuits turn back on (a

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